UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Jeffrey R. MacDONALD, Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued February 5, 1992.
Decided June 2, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Harvey A. Silverglate, Silverglate & Good, Boston, Mass., and Alan M. Dershowitz, Cambridge, Mass., argued (Philip G. Cormier, Thomas C. Viles, Andrew Good, Silverglate & Good, Boston, Mass., Roger C. Spaeder, David A. Hickerson, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, Taylor & Kolker; Anthony P. Bisceglie, Bisceglie & Walsh, Washington, D.C., Norman B. Smith, Smith, Follin & James, Greensboro, N.C., and John J.E. Markham, II, Santa Clara, Cal., on brief), for defendant-appellant.
John Fichter DePue, Crim. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued (Robert S. Mueller, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., James S. Reynolds, Chief, Terrorism and Violent Crime Section, Laura Ross Blumenfeld, Crim. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Margaret Person Currin, U.S. Atty., Brian M. Murtagh, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., and Eric Evenson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.
Before RUSSELL and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
OPINION
DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
Jeffrey MacDonald appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1988). MacDonald seeks relief through a second habeas petition from his 1979 conviction for the murders of his wife and two daughters. He presents newly discovered evidence, which, he claims, the government suppressed at trial and which, he...
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